i-D: Wink and Smile!: The First Forty Years-Fast Shipping

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i-D began as a fanzine dedicated to the street style of punk-era London in 1980 and quickly earned its position at the vanguard of fashion and style, abiding by the premise of “originate—don’t imitate.” This anniversary volume is the ultimate tribute to the irreverent and forward-thinking magazine that revolutionized not only the world of fashion publishing but fashion itself.

Overthe40yearssinceitslaunch, i-D hasgrown from a hand-stapled zine to one of the world’s leading internationalstyletitleswithtwomillionInstagram followers. Founded by Terry Jones in 1980, i-D began as a chronicle of style and attitude as much as a fashion bible,andovertheyearsithaskepttothatethos,in theprocessbecominganurturinggroundforgener-ationsoffashiontalents,fromDavidSimstoJuergen Teller,EdwardEnninfultoWolfgangTillmans,Tyler Mitchell to Harley Weir.
Thiscelebratoryvolumecommemoratesthe40th anniversaryof i-D throughtheprismofdifferent cultural eras, with each chapter focusing on a decade ofthemagazine’shistoryandfeaturingamixof originalrephotographedspreadsfromthemagazine, reprintedtextpieces,archivalimagery,covers,and newessaysexploringboththehistoryof i-D andthe wider cultural contexts of the era it was created in. It’s a magazine that has given Greta Thunberg, Madonna, Naomi Campbell, and Sonic the Hedgehog their first covers;thatinventedtheemoticon;andthat,across 40yearsand500coverwinks,hashadonedefining message: that fashion should be inclusive, fun, diverse, and—always—original.